Improving SUrgery of Liver Metastases: a Trial of the Arterial Chemotherapy Network

Summary

National trial, multicenter, randomized, phase II comparing treatment intensification with hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy plus systemic chemotherapy (CT) to systemic chemotherapy alone in patients with liver-only colorectal metastases (CRLM) considered still non resectable after at least two months of systemic induction chemotherapy.

Timeline

Start

2018-07-25

Primary completion

2021-07-15

Completion

2021-11-15

Publications

• Boileve A, Audemar F, Dupont-Bierre E, Le Sourd S, Ulusakarya A, Chauvenet M, Benmaziame A, Wagner M, Goere D, Dromain C, Gelli M, Pezzella V, Bonnet B, Tanguy ML, Boige V. Treatment Intensification with Hepatic Arterial Infusion Chemotherapy in Patients with Liver-Only Colorectal Metastases Still Unresectable After Systemic Induction Chemotherapy: Exploratory Findings From a Prematurely Closed Multicenter Randomized Phase II Study: SULTAN UCGI 30/PRODIGE 53 (NCT03164655). Ann Surg Oncol. 2026 Feb;33(2):1460-1469. doi: 10.1245/s10434-025-18570-5. Epub 2025 Oct 21.
• Boileve A, Maillard A, Wagner M, Dromain C, Laurent C, Dupont Bierre E, Le Sourd S, Audemar F, Ulusakarya A, Guerin-Meyer V, Smisth D, Pezzella V, De Baere T, Goere D, Gelli M, Taieb J, Boige V. Treatment intensification with hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy in patients with liver-only colorectal metastases still unresectable after systemic induction chemotherapy - a randomized phase II study -- SULTAN UCGI 30/PRODIGE 53 (NCT03164655)- study protocol. BMC Cancer. 2020 Jan 30;20(1):74. doi: 10.1186/s12885-020-6571-7.

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